Being a poet Quote by Peter Finch

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles…

— Anthony Liccione

“All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not…

— Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing…

— Joanna Russ

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would open a…

— Wang Chieh

“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of a higher…

— Roberto Bola√±o

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I do suffer from an associative malady that permits me to justify acquiring almost every book.”

— Henry Hitchens (Browse